Our Team

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Dr Hodgkins grew up in the local area and attended Junction Street Family Practice as a patient during his primary and high school years. He gained his medical degree at the University of Newcastle before moving to Sydney to work. He later earned his graduate diploma of paediatrics from the University of NSW while working at Sydney Children’s Hospital. He gained a lot of general practice experience both during and after gaining his fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in several city-based practices in Sydney as well as working in rural areas as far flung as Cunnamulla in Queensland before returning to his roots in Nowra in 2000.

Dr Hodgkins enjoys the challenges of general practice but also is an assistant in orthopaedic surgery. He is a visiting medical officer at the Nowra Private Hospital and has been the chair of the medical advisory council for several years. He is actively involved with our local medical school and is a clinical associate professor with the University of Wollongong. He also trains general practice registrars within the practice. He is actively involved in several research projects with a desire to further our scientific knowledge with research based in general practice. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Wollongong for his primary care research.

When Adam is not working, he can occasionally be found indulging in some telemark skiing (although he sometimes mixes this with medicine as he runs the medical clinic at Charlotte Pass which he has been part of since 1994). He also dabbles in raising sheep having changed from small scale beef production. He is not concerned about having nothing to do at the present time.

Costa started his professional life as an international lawyer and Australian diplomat where he developed a passion for global health, social justice and the environment. With the dream of raising his family on the idyllic South Coast and making a more tangible difference, he went on to complete his postgraduate medical studies from Sydney University.

The diversity and dynamism of general practice lured him into this specialty of medicine. Costa is passionate about holistic, patient-centred care and believes it is the highest privilege to practice medicine in the community he loves.

Costa enjoys all aspects of general practice but retains an special interest in Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine, Mental Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Aged and Palliative Care as well as Adolescent and Paediatric Medicine.

Alongside his general practice work Costa maintains a number of clinical, academic and governance appointments. If he’s not available for an appointment, he might be wearing one of these other hats:

• Academic tutor with the University of Wollongong;
• Visiting medical officer in Palliative Care at David Berry Hospital;
• Clinical supervisor and community trainer of future GPs through GP Synergy;
• Board Member, Medical Board of Australia
• Director and Councillor for the Illawarra Shoalhaven, Australian Medical Association;
• Director, Rural Doctors Network;
• Director, Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre
• Captain and Medical Officer (Reservist), Australian Army
• Councillor, Illawarra Shoalhaven Clinical Council

In his downtime Costa enjoys keeping active in nature with his young family and consuming slow food (which he grows even more slowly!).

Costa is fluent in Greek.

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Lorraine has been a registered nurse for over 30 years having trained at Wagga Base Hospital. She has been a practice nurse at Junction Street Family Practice since 2002. Prior to that she worked in operating theatres locally and in Sydney.

She has a special interest in aged care, dementia, grief and loss and palliative care. She is a facilitator of Shared Medical Appointments. Lorraine also teaches Aged Care Nursing at TAFE and finds the two roles greatly complement each other.

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Janine has been working as a medical receptionist for over 20 years at the practice and felt like she needed a change. She had the opportunity to train and study to be a Medical Practice Assistant and found it rewarding and challenging. She loves being able to interact with the patients more and loves the different types of work. She has lived locally most of her life, is married and has two sons with successful careers.

Gail commenced work at Junction Street Family Practice as a casual receptionist in 1997, when there were two doctors and three part time receptionists and has been an integral part of the growth of the practice over the past 23 years.

Over the last 10 years Gail completed a Certificate III in Professional Practice Management and then received a scholarship to complete her Diploma in Professional Practice Leadership, for which she won the Barbara Meredith Memorial Award in 2018. Gail also won the GP Synergy Practice Manager of the Year Award for South East NSW in 2017.

Gail loves being part of this dynamic and ever changing practice and enjoys working with our team to be always striving to provide the best possible care and experience for you and your family, at what can often be a very stressful time in life.

Nikki has been working as a medical receptionist since 2006.

She joined Junction Street Family Practice as a much valued `assistant to the Practice Manager in early 2019 and has quickly become an essential member of the team in a period of rapid change.

Nikki lives in Conjola Park with her family and in her spare time you will find her spending time with her family. Nikki enjoys bushwalking, going to the beach and watching her kids play sport.

Our administration and reception team includes:

• Louise Hamill
• Kelsey McDowall
• Elisha Turner
• Melanie Wolfenden
• Natasha Bendyke
• Zoe Schofield
• Tahleka Morris
• Karen Muller
• Sophie Phillips